Idries Shah Quotes
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His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
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I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
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I'm really good at making teen angst romantic. I'm really good at dealing with heartbreak and things like that and making it into this whole experience. But there's no way to make someone-on-the-Internet-said-something-mean-about-me into romantic angst where you can listen to music and cry or whatever.
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If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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It's important to have a dream no matter how old you are.
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Nothing recedes like progress.
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Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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Life is one big love story with hundreds of little love stories within it.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
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Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
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I live in a constant state of hyperbole.
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Enlightenment is the only real antidote to the world's despair.
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Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.
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Women, who on grounds of modesty alone might be expected to prefer being killed or cured by one of their own sex, prove as incalculable in this as in most other things;
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Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
